The Bottineau pioneer., 1887-09-01
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

lDAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.
| The contract calls for tho comple-
tion Of the new Catholic church 90
| Parker October 25. 3S
During q heavy thunder storm the
store building Of M. c. Rousseau at
Rousseau was struck by lightning and.
together with its contents destroyed
by fire. -
It cost $12,22o to convey two COM
panies of United States soldiers from
Fort Sully to Duluth.
Judge Clifford. .Dakota,s delegate TO
congress, spent the summer enjoying
the coolbreezes OF Big Stone Lake.
A Blunt physician has collection
OF geological specimens he values ct
At Pie RE, Sheriff Harris has taken
charge of the stock Of Farr & Beadle,
Harold, under an attachment Of G. W..
Hawley OF Blunt.
Thomas Ward, q prisoner at the
Sioux Falls penitentiary, attempted
to kill himselss by cutting his throat
with jack knife. Ward has served
four years Of a FIVE years sentence.
for grand larceny.
It is learned here that the grand
Jury for the term Of the district court
at Dead wood, returned fifty.five in
dictments. Many OF them are for
fornication. = duplicating promil ent
people y ~
The Dakota Ruralist is q new agri-
cultural paper just issued at East
Pierre, by Geo. G. Crosse and J. C.
Nc Mamma.
The Northern Pacific land depart.
ment has disposed of fifteen townships
of land in the southwestern part Of
Morton county, to a. Rhode Island
colony. - -' 49,.
A contract for building the Ramsey
county court house at Devils Lake
was secured by B. F. Shouley of that
place. Work will commence at once>
Collector Mueller Of Jamestown has
been awarded the contract for the
erection of the new school house at
New Buffalo. The building will be q
two-story frame structure 3Ox5O and
will cost $500. +. '.
Deadwood is. raiding the Chinese
houses of prostitution and opium
dens OF that city. Eight females and as
many men were sent tothe *calaboose.
A prominent Chinese merchant re-
tanned Col. Parker to defend them.
! A stock company has been organized
in Aberdeen for the publication Of
Scandinavian newspaper. A Catholic
paper will also be published there.
The civil engineer of the Wilmar and
Sioux Falls railroad thinks grading
on that line will becompleted to Sioux
Falls before the ground freezes up. s
The. New England colony hackers are
doing good work for Dakota. Over
500 900 acres have been purchased
from the Northern Pacific railroad
company. !,
The secretary Of the interior has af. !
firmed the decision OF the commission
er i'll the case of HI. E. Hawkey VS.. B.
Schlick, involving preference right to
entry OF southeast quarter section, g.,
township 1O2, range B3, Mitchell.
appealed by Schlick. ,e..
Word has been received here that
|, Yankton has been selected at the see
city OF the diocese Of South Dakota OF
the Catholic church. The diocese will
be called the Yankton diocese. A
cathedral will be built and a. diocese
school. Nearly s. OO, 900 will be ex.
pended in new buildings.
Thousands OF acres of uncultivated
landin the Sioux valley will this year
yield bountiful supply OF Dakota
wild grass, and many farms in the
Sioux valley will clear whatever in
debtedness they may have heretofore
incurred I r~-.
Sioux Falls, d. T., Press: Dakota
is allowed no vote for president, and
no voice in the national council, but
there ;is one right which is not denied
the citizens of the much.abused and
long suffering territory rirht Of
paying their just debts. And, not
withstanding, very liberal exemption
lave, that is just what Dakotans are
doing, At any rate, the collection
agencies report that nowhere are col
lections more easily made than IN
Dakota.
At Gary, Hon. M. +. Greeley. and
". Cooley Of that place left Gary d
few days ago for Wisconsin and Illi-
nois, whore they go to purchase about
two thousand head ofsheep for breed
ing purposes. Mr.. Greeley returned
three weeks ago with 400 head. ana
other parties have brought in flocka
from three hundred to a thous and ia
this country in the last two months.
Buel county can now boast of more
thoroughbred sheep than any county Y
in Dakota. T-~1-- - y. $3.50.
Pursuant to call, the flowing physi.
clans assembled at Grand Forks andor.
ganized q medical lasso ociation for North
Dakota; ]. E. Engstad, s. H. Erwin.
II. NJ. Wheeler. G. E. Teel, s. M. Rut.
ledge, M. w. Scott; of Grand Forks:
Lundy, Of Inkster; Montgomery.
OF Ardoch; Jackson, Of Iaakota; Con-
kew, OF Larimore: and I.ahavnn ~